BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to propose a localization strategy for bleeding sites in hemoptysis patients using their chest computed tomography (CT) findings. METHODS Between January 2005 and July 2009, the chest CT findings of 161 hemoptysis patients were retrospectively reviewed. Following chest CT, the lobe with the most prominent ground glass attenuation (GGA) or specific lesions ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To reassess the association between neurofibromatosis and pulmonary fibrosis. DESIGN Retrospective single-center study with analysis of patients' chest radiographs, CT scans, and medical records. SETTING Tertiary care, referral medical center. PATIENTS One hundred fifty-six adult patients with neurofibromatosis seen over a 6-year period between 1997 and 2002. RESULTS A ...

Introduction: Computed tomography is one of the most powerful tools for investigating thorax disease, because it shows progression of lung disease much clearer than chest radiography. Technical advances in CT scanners have led to some abilities for CT scanners such as coverage of larger volume, lower noise and ability for acquiring image in one respiratory phase. However, this will be accompani...

OBJECTIVE Postoperative acute interstitial pneumonia is a subset of post-surgical acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and is responsible for one third of in-hospital deaths following lung resection in patients with primary lung cancer. We evaluated the usefulness of computed tomography (CT) for detection of interstitial pneumonia (IP) as a risk factor of postoperative ARDS. METHODS Pre...

Computed tomography (CT) remains the main imaging technique for the preoperative staging and post-therapeutic evaluation of bronchogenic carcinoma. Spiral CT has already overcome some of the problems encountered with central or more extensive tumours. Multislice CT offers further improvement and allows for scanning of the whole chest within a single breath-hold using a thin-section high-resolut...

In the field of respiratory medicine, chest radiography and chest CT have to date been the main modalities of imaging used in routine medical care. The word tomosynthesis is formed from tomography and synthesis, tomosynthesis is a kind of digital tomography which is an imaging modality capable of reconstructing a coronal plane section of arbitrary height from a single tomographic scan 1) . The ...

Computer tomography (CT) is an effective technique in the initial evaluation of the abdomen and head following blunt trauma. To evaluate the role of CT of the thorax, a prospective study comparing routine early thoracic CT scanning with initial chest roentgenogram (CXR) was carried out on 73 patients with blunt torso trauma undergoing concomitant abdominal CT examination. Initial CXR and CT sca...

Background: To suggest South India CT diagnostic reference levels (DRLs) by collecting radiation doses for the most commonly performed CT examinations. Materials and Methods: A pilot study investigated the most frequent CT examinations. 110 CT sites were asked to complete a survey booklet to allow the recording of CT parameters for each of 3 CT examinations during a 1 year time period. Dose...

PURPOSE To investigate whether the multislice CT scanning protocols of head, chest and abdomen are adjusted according to patient's age in paediatric patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Multislice CT examination records of paediatric patients undergoing head, chest and abdomen scans from three public hospitals during a one-year period were retrospectively reviewed. Patients were categorised into t...

Epipericardial fat necrosis (EPFN) is an uncommon cause of chest pain. Typically manifesting as severe acute chest pain, EPFN can be mistaken for a serious disorder, such as pulmonary embolism or myocardial infarction. We report a case of EPFN, diagnosed tentatively based on clinical and radiographic findings, with documented resolution of the lesion on chest CT. According to our literature sea...